Robert van Bolderick

Born in Stockholm, 1968
He is of both Swedish and Dutch descent.
He works as an artist mostly in mixed media, with inspiration
from his travels to Central America, Asia and Europe.
Van Bolderick’s signature style typically uses techniques such as oil painting,
acrylic and mixed media with newspaper clippings.
Sheet music, old photos and flyers, creating contrasts between ancient and modern symbols.
Robert will often create an image in which the meanings of the adjacent symbols change,
using hieroglyphs and cave paintings along with the modern symbols of our mass media society,
old family pictures, notes, recent events, or historical extracts in text and images.
This creates a picture where these symbols lose their inherent symbolic value and become part of a new image.
Van Bolderick’s works are available at many private collectors in Sweden, the U.S.,
Europe, as well as in organizations such as Sweden’s parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Swedish Embassy, and much more.

Education
Self tough

Artist statement

As an artist, he uses techniques such as oil painting, sculpture, watercolour and photography
and mixed media with newspaper clippings, sheet music, old photos and flyers.
Robert van Bolderick (born in Stockholm, 1968) have both Swedish and Dutch descent and moved at the age of eleven with his family to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Growing up in the pulse of a cosmopolitan city and its mix of nationalities gave him an early interest in
the various countries language and symbols.
In 1987 the family moved back to Stockholm where he continued with school studies and further educated in art. Since the late 80 ‘s, working as an artist and then mostly in mixed media and with inspiration from travels to Central America, Asia and Europe.
Works in his private studio in Stockholm and in the summer in the Stockholm
archipelago close to nature and the sea, and in the south of Spain in the late summer and fall. Much of the inspiration comes from nature and the sea.
As an artist, he uses techniques such as oil painting, sculpture, watercolour and photography
and mixed media with newspaper clippings, sheet music, old photos and flyers.
In the creation he contrasts ancient and modern symbols. This will create an image in which the meanings of the adjacent symbols change. Uses hieroglyphs and cave paintings along with the modern symbols of our mass media society, old family pictures, notes, recent event or historical peeping out in texts and images. This creates a picture where these symbols lose
their inherent symbolic value and become part of a new image. Available at many private collectors in Sweden, the U.S., Europe, and companies such as Sweden’s parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Dutch Embassy, Stockholm, the Swedish Embassy, Vienna, Hotel Park Inn, Kabi Pharmacia Upjohn, Rank Xerox.

Exhibitions

Gallery representation
Mahlstedt Gallery, New Rochelle, New York
Modern Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Gallery Artmeet, Milano
Xanadu Gallery, Scottsdale, US
Ugallery, San Francisco, US